Bahá’u’lláh

The vitality of men’s belief in God is dying
out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome
medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of
ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society;
what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can
cleanse and revive it? Is it within human power, O
Hakím, to effect in the constituent elements of any
of the minute and indivisible particles of matter so
complete a transformation as to transmute it into
purest gold? Perplexing and difficult as this may appear,
the still greater task of converting satanic
strength into heavenly power is one that We have
been empowered to accomplish. The Force capable
of such a transformation transcendeth the potency
of the Elixir itself. The Word of God, alone, can
claim the distinction of being endowed with the
capacity required for so great and far-reaching a
change.